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Finishing Touches Sturminster 3.0
The last couple of months have seen me working through the layout to fix the buildings, finalise the landscape, plant trees and grass, sort out the lighting rig and populate the layout with people and animals, mainly cows. Richard very kindly painted the backscene for me as his buildings are brilliant. This work is coming…
Buildings for Sturminster
Sturminster Newton 2mm/foot with N gauge track. Layout upgrade work in progress
End of an Era
Sturminster Newton Spent the last day and a bit stripping down Sturminster Newton 1.0 for the bits that will be transferred to version 2.0 and getting the wood off that I can reuse in the future. The good news is progress on v2.O and shown in the photo below with the new board standing up…
Shillingstone Open Day 5th April
A year since I posted via the blog and not direct to Facebook, Same activity as the last post just a year later, getting the Shillingstone layout ready for the open day at the station on Saturday. The key change from last year is that I now have the Signal box ready to go The…
Shillingstone @ Easter
A good day on Easter Sunday with the model performing well. We had a few issues with the Engine Driver app and some runaway trains but otherwise, the layout worked well. I have a few jobs to do before the next outing. I need to revisit the up and down home and distant signals as…
Shillingstone for Easter
The layout is now up and ready for the show at Shillingstone Station in Dorset on Sunday. It’s an Easter Egg hunt day at the station. Hope the weather improves. The station is open 10-3 if you want to come and have a look. Some photo’s below from the setup today. Since the layout was…
Busier than expected
The S&DRT show at Edington in early January went very well with the layout and stock behaving itself. Phil came and helped and we had a good time at the show. I’d already made the decision to commence the rebuild of the boards to improve the running across the board joints and rectify the small…
Ready for Wincanton Show 11-12 Nov
Getting Sturminster ready for the show at Wincanton next weekend, managed to get the Collett running, not sure what I did but runs around the layout and Poole Sidings now with no problems. All the points have been checked on the layout along with the routes and Signals and most of the engines have been…
Shillingstone Green and Ballasted
Progress on the boards has moved on a couple of stages, The bridge frameworks are now all in place, for the first outing I will use Scalescenes brickpapers for the bridges and abutments and potentially later on replace with Plasticard if I don’t like the look. The track has been ballasted with Gaugemaster brown ballast…
Shillingstone -Embankments and Bridges
With the weather being a tad warmer in early may before the hot spell I’ve been able to make some progress on the layout. On the scenic boards the embankments are in, the first layers of paper mache for the land base are on and both Raglans drove and Haywards Lane. The bridges and piers…
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